STM 2-day US Annual Conference 2024

Wednesday 24th - Thursday 25th April 2024

  
STM | A Report from the Future

This is the STM US Annual Conference 2024 where we will journey to the future — exploring the world of scholarly communications as it might exist in the years to come. Different stakeholders will describe the future of research and its output, and we will discuss the obstacles we need to overcome — legal, technical, social, political — and the actions we need to take to get there, including what is already in progress.  Here, we will convene not just to peer into the possibilities, but rather to actively shape the future of scholarly communications as an inspired STM community. Will you join us? 

What's this?
STM's Annual US Conference is an inspired convening of individuals and organisations committed to advancing trusted research — academic publishers, learned societies, funders, university presses, government bodies and innovators — from across the globe for two days of inspired networking, learning and ideation. 

Join us in Washington DC on April 24 - 25 to hear from speakers and panelists across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Open to STM members and non-members — all are welcome — as we explore this year's theme: A Report from the Future.

Register today to grab your seat — and tell your colleagues. This event tends to sell out!

Come a day early and join us for the satellite event: STM Societal Impact Day on April 23 (grab seats for all three days for a bundled discount).

Please note the change in venue: this year, we're convening at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. 


 

 Program

Conference Chair Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant

 

Wednesday 24th April 2024 - Day 1: A view from the future

 

08:00

Registration, coffee & networking

09:00

Highlights of Societal Impact Day

Dana Compton, Managing Director, Publications & Standards, and Publisher, ASCE
Gordon MacPherson
, Director, Board Governance & Policy Development, IEEE

09:20

 

Opening & Welcome
Sarah Tegen, Senior Vice President, Journals Publishing Group, American Chemical Society / STM Board Chair

Deborah Kahn
, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant / Conference Chair

09:30

Launch of STM Trends 2028 panel
Moderated by Heather Staines, Senior Consultant, Delta Think

Hylke Koers
, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions
Steven Heffner, Managing Director, Publications, IEEE
Anita de Waard, VP Research Collaborations, Elsevier
Chirag Jay Patel, Head of Sales, Cactus Communications

10:15

The second digital transformation of scholarly publishing

Roger C. Schonfeld, Vice President, Organizational Strategy, Ithaka
Tracy Bergstrom, Program Manager for collections and infrastructure in the Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program,  Ithaka S+R

10:45

Refreshment break & networking

11:15

Society Panel: A view from the future
Moderated by: Jayne Marks, Senior Associate, Maverick Publishing Specialists

Anna Troise, Chief Education Strategist, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Steven Heffner
, Managing Director, Publications, IEEE
Jeff Lewandowski, Director of Publishing, American Physical Society

12:00

The Funder: A view from the future
Moderated by Anita de Waard, VP Research Collaborations, Elsevier

David B. Berkowitz, Director of the Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation

12.30

Lunch and networking

13:45

Special Report: Research Offices of the Future
Moderated by Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant / Conference Chair

Nandita Quaderi
, SVP and Editor-in-Chief, Web of Science, Clarivate

14:15

The STEM researcher: A view from the future
Moderated by Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant / Conference Chair

Heather Whitney
, Research Assistant Professor, Radiology, University of Chicago

14:45

The Social Scientist; A view from the future
Moderated by Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant / Conference Chair

Igor Grossmann,
Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada

15:15

Refreshment break & networking

15:45

The Librarian: A view from the future
Moderated by Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO

Cynthia Hudson Vitale
, Director, Science Policy & Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries

Leo Lo, Dean of University Libraries, University of New Mexico

16:30

The Journal Editor: A view from the future
Moderated by Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO

Darren Roblyer
, Associate Professor, Boston University

17:00

Meeting wrap-up and close
Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant / Conference Chair

17:20

Drinks Reception

 

Thursday 25th April 2024 - How can publishers prepare for the future?

 

08:15

Coffee & networking

09:00

How do we move to the future?
Moderated by Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO & Anita de Waard, VP Research Collaborations, Elsevier

Reflections and highlights from day 1: Group discussion on how to move to the future

10:30

Refreshment break & networking

11:00

Harnessing technology panel session

This panel will explore ways to embrace and leverage advances in technology to better communicate scholarly research from the lab to “publication,” both within the scientific community and broader public domain.

Moderated by Matthew Salter, CEO and Founder, Akabana Consulting

Heather Whitney, Research Assistant Professor, Radiology, University of Chicago

Stuart Leitch, Chief Technology Officer, Silverchair

Chris Reid, Director, Product and Publishing Development, AAAS/ Science

12.00

Lunch and networking

13:00

Trust panel session
This panel will look at the actions we need to take to ensure that we can maintain trust in scholarly outputs in both the near and long term future

Moderated by Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant / Conference Chair

Sarah Elaine Eaton, Academic Director, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Education and Academic Integrity, University of Calgary

Sabina Alam
, Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity, Taylor and Francis Group

Alan Schiffres, Managing Director, InfoLinx 

14:00

Data Management panel session 

Moderated by: Jayne Marks, Senior Associate, Maverick Publishing Specialists and Erin Foley, Senior Publisher Solutions Manager, Copyright Clearance Center

Juliane Schneider, Research Librarian - Metadata, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Shelley Stall, VP Open science leadership, American Geophysical Union's (AGU)

Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad

15:00

Refreshment break & networking

15:30

The future beyond the article, in summary panel session:
Moderated by Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO and Anita de Waard, VP Research Collaborations, Elsevier

Tracy Bergstrom
, Program Manager for collections and infrastructure in the Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program,  Ithaka S+R
Juliane Schneider, Research Librarian - Metadata, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Igor Grossmann, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada
Nandita Quaderi, SVP and Editor-in-Chief, Web of Science, Clarivate

16:45

Closing remarks

 

Annual Conference Program Committee:
Chair: Deborah Kahn, COPE Trustee, and Research Integrity Consultant

Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Anita de Waard, VP Research Collaborations, Elsevier
Erin Foley, Director of Rightsholder Relations, Copyright Clearance Center
Patrick Franzen, Director, Publications & Platform, SPIE
Jayne Marks, Senior Associate, Maverick Publishing Specialists

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